I thought this is what EGSL was??
You've all heard the saying, "There's a sucker born every day." Youth soccer operates on the principle that "There's a new batch of suckers enrolling every season." I'm not anti-ECNL or anti-DA, but I am anti-insanity. Parents, please, please, stop falling for the whole B- team sucker job. Just find the best coach for your kid. And if they don't play in a big, shiny National League, who cares? Reject these bogus DPL or ECNL 2 leagues and keep playing CSL or SCDSL or SDDA. The best teams and players will still have their opportunities. You don't need to fly to Texas to play another B-team. These clubs are selling the concept that your kid will get a college offer if you play in a National League. They stack their A teams with physical specimens and lure the parents of the kids that need "development" with elusive "opportunities" on their B teams and then manufacture mini-national leagues to create the illusion that the extra money is worth it. Meanwhile the B teams get shuffled around on the practice field, the good B-team coaches get moved or promoted or fired for out-performing their A team coaches, and half the players leave because their parents think they're too good for a B team anyway. It's the biggest con-job in all of club soccer. They need those teams to fund their big national league teams, so the clubs play the numbers game and just recruit more players every year to keep the shuffle going. I get that in cities that are in less populous states (Phoenix, Atlanta, St. Louis, etc.) there probably is a big drop off in local competition from the top DA and ECNL teams to the local leagues. I get that the players on the bubble might need to travel further to play similar competition. But in SoCal, there is simply no need. I hate this idea.